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 #### (Optional) Chunking Corpus
 
-When preparing your corpus data, you may need to chunk each passage, as longer passage maybe too complex for the OpenIE process. Check `src/data_process/util.py` to chunk your whole corpus if you need.
+When preparing your corpus data, you may need to chunk each passage, as longer passage may be too complex for the OpenIE process. Check `src/data_process/util.py` to chunk your whole corpus if you need.
 
 ### Integration with LangChain